these propaganda see t.t.n. which is the english language channel of state controlled television has a major broadcast hub in washington the us edition of the china daily is available in most major cities including new york and washington and this is a way of course for china to project its thinking the thinking of the chinese government what trump was referring to yesterday is the fact that the chinese have been taking up advertisement in regional newspapers including one in des moines to outline their case in the trade war and he says this is an example of how china is trying to manipulate opinion in the united states and undermine the political system generally so adrian are relations in danger that perhaps pirating out of control i think that we are moving into pretty dangerous waters aren't we at the moment we have you know ongoing friction over taiwan increased friction in the south china sea where china

is becoming much more muscular in asserting its sovereignty claims over a group of islands that's been building in this vast basin of water and then of course we have the broadening tariff war just this week trump impose tariffs on two hundred billion dollars more of chinese imports that mean some two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods and are subject to tariffs and this week in the united states it was announced by the justice department that at twenty seven year old chinese student had been arrested accused of espionage you know washington has long said that china is using students in the united states to try to project you know the views of the chinese state these students are found on you know all big campuses in the united states right now and you know washington cvs and very much as a sort of trojan horse or engine thank you. well venezuela's president says

he's ready to meet his u.s. counterpart nicolas maduro made the comments during his surprise u.n. general assembly address but says he's willing to talk to donald trump about anything the u.s. government wants to discuss your happy feet. let me say from this very rushed room despite the enormous historic ideological and social differences i am a worker a driver a man of the people i am not a magnate i am not a multimillionaire despite all of these differences the president of venezuela nicolas maduro would be willing i am willing to reach out my hand to the president of the united states donald trump and discuss these matters bilaterally these matters involving our region should have a chance he joins us live now from u.n. headquarters in new york she had the venezuelan president nicolas maduro had quite a lot of lot to say and i just wrapped up what he said for us. right that was the first time that he's called for dialogue with the drug administration what was the

surprise there was he was here at all because he had initially said that he wouldn't be coming because he feared for his life you fear they might be an assassination attempt if he came here then trump earlier on said actually you know if your it was him maybe we would have a talk next thing we knew we saw a tweet from a dura saying on landing in new york and then he gave he gave the speech at the u.n. general assembly then the white house said actually there's no plans for any talks between moore and trump but what we do i was trying to trying to spell out was his theory his account of what's happening here that venezuela is the victim of a sustained attack by washington but only got in washington who want that as well as oil and gas much as they did with iraq so they're manufacturing a crisis using politics economics and the media and he said that they've been quite open about it donald trump himself cited the monroe doctrine in his address to the u.n. general assembly that's the nineteenth century political doctrine which said that the u.s. as far as it was concerned could do anything it wanted in the uk in america this is its sphere of influence and would do or said he try did those in latin america know

that plenty of right wing governments now and up america for cooperating with the trump administration in sanctioning and going against venezuela for making the point i mean how can you possibly be doing this we know the havoc that the us has caused in latin america it's taken us years to get our sovereignty and our political systems back you shouldn't be doing it so it was it was it was it was a joined up a joined up thesis here about what's going on in venezuela and for everyone not to trust what we're hearing about what's going on but as well yes you have been away from the venezuela crisis trump took credit didn't the for defusing the adlib offensive in syria and surprisingly even get credit to iran and russia for holding back what more they have to say. you write that he was referring to a tweet which i'm just pulling up right now but he said because he tweeted in september the following let me see if i can just bring it up here it was a tweet basically warning us it was september the fourth president bashar al assad of syria must not recklessly attack ad lib province the russians and iranians would

be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this potential human tragedy hundreds of thousands of people could be killed don't let that happen exclamation mark because he tweeted that donald trump said the attack didn't happen and he said he's trying to buy syrians for that it is true that i had the what was expected to be an assault on a liberal that we don't really know the truth about what was going on the washington was making very grave threats of retribution on russia and iran and so on but then he did say he thanked russia iran and syria for not going ahead not going ahead with the with the attack and you also talk turkey for its cooperation to chad thank you meanwhile iran's president says his country doesn't want to go to war with the u.s. anywhere in the middle east has an rouhani called the trumpet ministrations withdrawal from the twenty fifty nuclear deal a mistake but said sooner or later they'll support it again ronnie says tara is

willing to resolve its issues of washington reports from u.n. headquarters in new york. tough times for president has honey his people want him to stand firm against a barrage of verbal attacks from the u.s. but his ultimate goal is to prevent a military confrontation with the world's most powerful country. become a time our intent is to ensure that the usa abides by laws stops a bullying stops pressuring maintains commitments keeps promises that they sign on to it hears two un resolutions we say do not sanction illegally unfairly and unjustly we say the sanctions of the u.s. are inhumane and they must stop bullying the world. but the u.s. isn't the only country accusing iran of trying to destabilize the middle east saudi arabia has long blamed iran for funding crosses to spread she has them in

a predominantly sunni arab world accusations dismissed by the horizon. yemen's president. told the united nations general assembly that iran must stop meddling in his country's. were not. all the how to handle fall over we are still in the grips of a war that was imposed on our people by armed militias that are supported by iran and hezbollah they are supported financially through the media and militarily these militias are extremists they employ gangs to work tactics. ronnie denied all those allegations as well as accusations that his country continues to send weapons and fighters to support the syrian president bashar assad the iranian president couldn't hide his excitement about the support he got from the e.u. russia and china but it remains to be seen whether that support will last as the

u.s. ramps its diplomatic pressure the back and forth accusations between iran and the trump administration come at a critical time the u.s. is planning a new round of sanctions to choke to iran's oil revenue and that's already raising fears of further instability in the middle east. new york. a lot more still to come here on the news hour including efforts to relieve the pressure on argentina the i.m.f. loans more money to help the latin american nations struggling economy. and they stood next to each other for the u.s. ryder cup photo but will tiger woods and phil mickelson play together joe we'll have that and all the sport a little bit later. britain's defense minister says the true identity of one of the suspects in the novacek nerve agent attack in salzburg has been revealed to be a russian colonel his comments appear to confirm claims by the investigative group

belling cat they say these photos prove that one of the suspects who went by the name of is actually an attorney. that says he worked for the russian military intelligence agency and was awarded russia's highest medal in twenty fourteen russia denies any involvement in the attack but during her speech at the un the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may accused russia of trying to fabricate evidence in the case and violate international law we have seen what happens when the natural patra tism which is a cornerstone of a healthy society is warped into aggressive nationalism exploiting fear and uncertainty to promote identity politics and belligerent confrontation abroad while breaking rules and undermining institutions and we see this when states like russia flagrantly breach international norms from the seizing of sovereign territory to the reckless use of chemical weapons on the streets of britain by

agents of the russian g.r.u. we have to show there is a better way to meet the concerns of our people that way lies in global cooperation between strong and accountable states based on open economies and inclusive societies. people in vietnam have been paying their respects to the former president as the country begins two days of mourning trying day kwang died suddenly on friday from a red line to us a state funeral be held on thursday when was widely criticized internationally for his crackdown on political dissent the vice president down to not team has been named acting president becoming vietnam's first female head of state when hey joins us live now from hanoi when there's been a brief service on thursday so what's next for the late president then. that's right down just a few moments ago we saw a very long motorcade begin what will be a very long slow journey south of the capital hanoi tunin been a province that is where the late president was born where he grew up in

a small rural community in that province and that is where they will be another brief service held there before he is laid to rest later on thursday already on thursday morning another brief service was held behind me in the national funeral hold that service was attended by his family of course also the leadership from the communist party and from the government and then as i say just a few moments ago that very long motorcade began that journey it's a two day service really a two day period of mourning that has been declared by the government as part of that flags flying at half mast around the country big events such as recreational events entertainment events have been canceled by the government we've also seen funeral services happening not just here in hanoi but also in the south and coachman city and as a say in nimbin province where the late president was born and wane are we any clearer underwent a new president will be elected. not at this stage

down the certainly knows speculation that we've seen in the last few days in the very tightly controlled media here in vienna might be at nama about exactly when that might happen who might step up to replace trend die acquiring as. the next president of vietnam as you mentioned a fairly historic moment given that vietnam now has its first female head of state with the vice president not. acting president now until a new one is elected some experts here in hanoi saying it's unlikely that she will get the job full time but we will not know that until october the twenty second at the earliest that is when the national assembly is due to begin its next session it's a shared sation all of that effectively vietnam's parliament that will sit at last for a month and we expect during that session that a new president will be elected but again still no confirmation of exactly when that might happen when thank you. now mexico's incoming government says it's going

to investigate the disappearance of forty three students in the southern city of the goa the promise comes as protesters gathered to motley fourth anniversary the abduction and suspected massacre of the students was one of the worst crises during president and the ten year gena home john home and has the latest for us from mexico city. this is the fourth anniversary since the tragedy in mexico in which twenty three students were kidnapped by police in collusion with a local guy and it had a huge impact on a country this is a country that's had more than thirty thousand people disappeared over the last few years and this really these forty three shooters became a potent symbol of not just that phenomenon but also the impunity and the lack of really concern from government forces the government was very slow to react to what happened with the students the investigation was riddled with errors according to

you to the n.g.o.s in the country and according to relatives looking for their lost loved ones now four years later it seems that things might move again with this case the president elect andres manuel lopez obrador says that he's committed to the truth coming out about what happened to the students he's going to make sure that the case gets an investigating committee that's going to look at it again an independent experts who were investigating what has happened before they say they were brought by the government are going to be allowed into the country going to take up their investigation so parents are hopeful that finally after all these years they might get to the bottom of this the international monetary fund has increased a loan to argentina to fifty seven billion dollars the seven billion dollars boost is designed to restore investor confidence in the south american country argentina's been struggling to repay its debts under steep interest rates the pace has lost around fifty percent of its value against the u.s.

dollar so far this year. argentina's franken economy is all through incompetence and thunder lightning on me a big core of the new plan is probably see that strengthening its position and having a sustainable appropriately on the budget. a strong monetary policy focus on reducing inflation and a floating exchange rate only thirty without intervention for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back if you negotiate not to yield then you need to make way for a party that. the leader of the u.k.'s labor party rejects tories amaze proposed breaks a plan saying his party the better. and you better sixten their winning streak in the tally of the job without all the details in support of the fretboard that speaks.

from dusky sunsets if a sprawling seven. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. hello welcome to another look at the international forecast is looking largely far to drive for a good part of china over the next couple of days the same can be said down towards the southwest yes just around northern parts of vietnam hong kong thirty one degrees as we go through thursday friday could even be a touch warmer the western weather will remain off the south western side of the country push down across high that a good part of india china seeing those live the showers as is the case too to make their way a little further south it doesn't seep out into the philippines a tropical system just to the northeast of that well that's typhoon trami that's heading towards japan for the philippines itself always a chance of one or two showers over the next couple of days northern parts of borneo could see some showers maybe over towards well there is

a smarter pushing up across the malaysian peninsula what a weather still drifting its way in here now for india well concerns return to the southwest of the country becloud just storms just pushing in here kind of taka and more specially across care over the next couple days warnings are in force we have got some very heavy rain coming through so there could be some flooding shop showers too across northern parts of under the dash into addition and it stays very disturbed for a good part of bangladesh. the weather sponsored by catalog race. oldest muslim undertakers working here is just seven days a week that's grown with a community my father purchased a black and blue sweater and started to do the funerals in london and family we saw a stopping father and daughter and became business partners the stories we don't often hear told by the people who the gift is such

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a quick recap of the top stories here this hour president trump's pick for the u.s. supreme court is expected to defend his innocence when he testifies in front of a senate committee on thursday accuser christine ford also answer questions about an incident she says drastically altered her life. u.s. president of the qs china of meddling in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections donald trump made the claims as he chaired his first u.n. security council meeting he gave no evidence for the accusations which were denied by beijing trump also attacked iran calling it the world's leading sponsor of terror. and mexico's incoming government says it's going to investigate the disappearance of forty three students in the southern city of equality the promise comes as protesters gather to mark the fourth anniversary adoption and suspected killings of the students was one of the worst crises during president enrique pena nieto tenure. let's get more now on our top story in the growing allegations against donald trump's pick for the u.s. supreme court the first woman to publicly accused cabinet of sexual assault is now

facing death threats as well as in jordan looks at why alleged victims often suffer the worst of the public backlash. those who know christine blazin ford say she never wanted to go public with her allegation that in one thousand nine hundred two a teenage brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her and that was a forethought during the attack he could kill her cavanaugh the supreme court justice nominee denies the allegation indeed the psychology professor told the washington post she was afraid no one would believe her affair concern especially since the president of the united states has weighed in first on camera as you know just a stabbing or has been treated very very tough as a family i think it's a very unfair thing what's going on and then on twitter if the attack on dr ford was as bad as she says charges would have been immediately filed with local law enforcement authorities. according to the justice department only about twenty

three percent of sexual assault victims ever go to the police psychology professor jennifer fried says that in response perpetrators routinely attack their accuser's credibility and i think it is a mean reason that women and victims of sexual violence are unwilling to speak about what happened to them my name is a need to affeldt frauds research was inspired by the one nine hundred ninety one confirmation hearing of clarence thomas in which anita hill accused him of sexual harassment that's her job i was the chair of the judge's sciri committee at the time but senate rules did not let him stop senators from attacking hill i'm sorry i couldn't have stopped the kind of attacks that came to me but i never attacked my supporters after trump nominated kavanaugh flossy for it sent a call financial letter about the alleged assault to senator dianne feinstein that has republicans accusing bossy ford of playing politics with kavanagh's future but

a law professor says blazin ford has the right to demand justice at those rights are not useful to them if to accuse someone. of attempted rape means to be subject to harassment death threats. being plagued by media christine bossy ford and her family are in hiding thanks to death threats the debate about brett kavanaugh his character grows more vigorous no time yet for blogs he forward to decide whether speaking out has been worth it for the country or for herself. rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington let's talk to richard goodstein he's a democratic political consultant on the former adviser to president bill clinton he joins us live now from washington d.c. but cavanagh is now facing a third accuser of sexual misconduct he denies the claims but just how serious is this allegation which you know is my answer to that daryn is that

if the republicans showed any real interest in how serious it was they would bring her in to testify put her under oath i mean this is a woman who submitted her statement as part of a formal declaration a formal affidavit so there's already legal consequences attached to what she signed she's asked as have the other two accusers blahs you forward and deborah ramirez have asked the f.b.i. to investigate they're prepared to tell the f.b.i. what their experience was and again that would be subjecting them to criminal prosecution if they lied so these women basically come out we didn't know of them two weeks ago their lives have been turned upside down and the thing gesture that somehow they're making this up or doing it for a little political purposes is absurd considering what they're having to go through to basically get the facts out as they experience them and given that brett

kavanaugh is now facing three allegations i mean whether or not he's guilty i mean he's looking more and more like a lame duck in the end is this nomination in real peril right now well it's a great it's kind of the sixty four thousand dollar question the reason is this. if he either withdraws or is voted down it seems unlikely that the republicans would have enough time. in this year before the next congress is sworn in in early january of two thousand and nineteen have somebody whose name is floated investigated by the f.b.i. have hearings and etc everything that cabinet has gone through i don't think there's enough time and what the republicans fear is that in these elections coming up in november the united states that control the senate could go into democratic hands right now it's a fifty one forty nine republican majority so if the democrats picked up two to be in the majority of themselves not an easy task because there are many more

democrats at risk if they control the senate people like who are ideologues like brett kavanaugh will not be confirmed and either donald trump will have to propose moderates which the republicans throw a fit about or leave its seat on the supreme court vacant maybe for two years and then the fear is of a democrat succeeds donald trump the next person would be able to put in a justice handpicked by the democrats so that's the that's the fear so let's talk about trump for a second because all ten democratic members of the senate judiciary committee have called on trump to immediately withdraw kavanah but i mean is trump likely to back down even if the evidence is compelling. it doesn't seem to be as m.o. does it i mean he's somebody who's who's conviction is you double down of some a comes at you you go back at them harder i don't think it's an embarrassment to a lot of people united states that he has the approach that he does towards women

towards issues generally towards criticism. towards dealing with world leaders you name it i don't really think that over and over he backs kavanaugh he did however it is remarks today at the united nations say that he was going to listen to what was happening tomorrow as if to suggest that maybe he was open to persuasion i think he was giving themselves an out if capital looked bad and this doctor ford who's his accuser came across really credibly i think he doesn't want to be tied to cavanaugh who was never really his first pick in the you know originally richard goodstein thanks very much indeed for your time. britain's main opposition leader jeremy corbin says his labor party would vote against a brags that deal based on the prime minister's proposal it's the strongest warning yet against a reason may so-called checkers plan called and says labor is ready to take over the briggs talks. but let me also reach out to the prime minister.

who is currently apparently doing that are going to. bret's it is about the future country and our vital interests it's not about leadership squabbles parliamentary posturing i say this to sincerity and helpfulness. if you deliver a deal that includes a customs union then no harm poor you know and if you protect jobs people's rights at work and environmental consumer standards. then we will support that sensible deal a deal that would be backed by most of businesses in the world and trade unions but if you can't negotiate that deal then you need to make way for a party that can and will. now google is celebrating its twentieth anniversary what began as a simple search engine is now a technology giant which has revolutionized the world and the way we do things is rebels. this is what google's search page looked like the day it was launched

and this is the company's first headquarters with founders larry page and sergey brin twenty years later google's enormous success has given it this huge ever expanding silicon valley headquarters known as the googleplex page and brin are multi-billionaires and google knows a lot about us they know who you are they know a lot about your habits they know what kind of videos he watched they don't how many e-mails he gets they are very large an important part of most people's daily lives its search engine process is three and a half billion requests per day or one point two trillion a year that information is power google uses the information to lucratively target advertising to customers the more they know about you the more the can market you to advertisers a collection of activities in what we do every day. you know one of the rules or

the role of government when when a company collects in a mass that much information in the u.s. google like other big tech companies is largely unregulated regarding what they do with the information they collect the idea that these companies will suffer regularly is as laughable and i think it's been shown that as insufficient that may be changing in congressional hearings this week lawmakers discussed a federal internet privacy law to regulate big tech companies behavior the european union has taken a stricter line passing sweeping new online privacy rules and recently levying heavy multibillion dollar fines on google for anti-competitive practices google's corporate culture appears to be changing earlier this year google quietly dropped its famous motto don't be evil from its corporate code of conduct in april three thousand google employees signed up to to. demanding the company in its partnership with the pentagon called project maven that uses images and artificial intelligence

to improve drone strike accuracy on the battlefield google now says it will not with its pentagon contract when it expires in two thousand and nineteen in just two decades google has made itself practically indispensable in the lives of billions of people what it will do with its information power and wealth over the next twenty years is something that should concern each one of them rob reynolds al-jazeera mountain view california let's talk to laurie imagine he's a technology consultant and c.e.o. of comic safety dot org joins me via skype from palo alto in california laurie google has pretty much become a global household name so how has the search engine changed our lives well it fundamentally changed the way require we acquire knowledge i mean i can't think of anything bigger than that i'm old enough to not remember when you if you needed information you had to go to a library read a book get a magazine get

a physical copy it might take you hours or day thin you might still not find it today virtually anything you want to know is right there at your fingertips you can get it in fact whether it's obscure knowledge or common knowledge all of us i think are if not a lot smarter certainly a lot better informed than we ever would have been before google with around yeah google has and been without controversy though i mean you know the company actually helped china with censorship and controversy helped the pens are going to the intelligence programs. that's right google has a lot of concerts with the i remember when larry page and sergey brin used to come over to my house and talk to me about their little company and everybody loved it and now it's a giant company and it has its detractors for good reason because of the enormous power that this company have but it also has a lot of potential for example itself driving car program could revolutionize the way we get around and maybe save thousands or hundreds of thousands of lives if they could someday develop cars that are almost accident proof so there's

a lot of potential in this company as well as a lot of issues especially around privacy sonari what do we do b.g. before google i mean we seem to manage though didn't we all we all got along we got along before car the you know we used to ride horses to get from place to place maybe not you and me but certainly our grandparents so yes we did we did get around and of course it's important to point out that the mere acquisition of information doesn't bring about wisdom i for example don't google by thim timbs if i'm not feeling well because i might have a cough and google might tell me it's lung cancer but it's probably a common cold so you have to be very careful how you interpret the information that google comes up with let me get a final quick thought from you i mean one of the next twenty is whole for google how we like to see the technology evolve and develop and in almost any way they want to go because they've got so much money they can venture into any business they want to they want to come out with a cell flying airplane they could do it if they want to come out with a refrigerator they could do it you name it they have the resources and possibly

the engineers to make it happen larry magid always good to talk to you thank you for your time thank you.